Abstract Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a disease that in most individuals results from autoimmune
attack of a single tissue type, the pancreatic islet. A fundamental, unanswered question in …

The impact of invasion by a single non-native species on the function and structure of
ecological communities can be significant, and the effects can become more drastic–and …

If two species live on a single resource, the one with a slight advantage will out-compete the
other: complete competitors cannot coexist. This is known as the competitive exclusion …

Antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites can have a major impact on host
population structures, and hence on the evolution of social traits. Using stochastic modelling …

By applying a technique previously developed to study ecosystem assembly [Capitán et al.,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 168101 (2009)] we study the evolutionary stable strategies of iterated 2 …

Positive and negative interactions within and between species may occur simultaneously,
with the net effect depending on population densities. For instance, at low densities plants …

Community ecology has traditionally relied on the competitive exclusion principle, a piece of
common wisdom in conceptual frameworks developed to describe species assemblages …

Understanding the processes driving community assembly is a central theme in ecology, yet
this topic is marginally studied in food webs. Bioenergetic models have been instrumental in …

In food webs, the degree of intervality of consumers' diets is an indicator of the number of
dimensions that are necessary to determine the niche of a species. Previous studies …

In the companion paper of this set (Capitán and Cuesta, 2010) we have developed a full
analytical treatment of the model of species assembly introduced in Capitán et al.(2009) …